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Helene Schlesinger Clip 6: Teaching Immigrant Students

Collection: This recording is part of the Helene and Stanley Schlesinger Oral History and is available in digital audio.
Date: Time Period: 1920-2001; 2011-02-16; Interview recorded: February 16, 2011 Material: Digital audio recording made using TASCAM DR-07 and Hindenburg software. Dimension: Total running time: 0:02:00
Creator: Helene and Stanley Schlesinger interviewed by Tess Hartman Identifier: aql:16142 schlesinger_helene_clip6

Description: Mrs. Schlesinger taught many new immigrants from Afghanistan, Russia, and South America in her 5th grade classroom. There was a "pull-out" program for English language lessons during part of the day, but in the classroom non-English-speaking students were paired with bilingual students who would help them. She remembers having an overcrowded classroom with 34 students during those years.

Collection : aql:20455; aql:16086

Creator : Helene and Stanley Schlesinger interviewed by Tess Hartman

Date : Time Period: 1920-2001; 2011-02-16; Interview recorded: February 16, 2011

Summary/Description : Mrs. Schlesinger taught many new immigrants from Afghanistan, Russia, and South America in her 5th grade classroom. There was a "pull-out" program for English language lessons during part of the day, but in the classroom non-English-speaking students were paired with bilingual students who would help them. She remembers having an overcrowded classroom with 34 students during those years.

Subject : Teachers; Class size; Teaching; African American students; Students, Foreign

Rights : This recording is the property of Queens College Libraries' Department of Special Collections and Archives. Please contact qc.archives@qc.cuny.edu for research and reproduction requests.

Coverage : Locations discussed: Flushing, NY Flushing (New York, N.Y.)

Type : Oral history

Format : Digital audio recording made using TASCAM DR-07 and Hindenburg software.; Total running time: 0:02:00

Identifier : aql:16142 schlesinger_helene_clip6

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Teachers; Class size; Teaching; African American students; Students, Foreign

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This recording is the property of Queens College Libraries' Department of Special Collections and Archives. Please contact qc.archives@qc.cuny.edu for research and reproduction requests.


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